The Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography presents a solo exhibition of Mikhail Savin’s work IT WILL BE A COLD WINTER, built around the time and spirits of the “cold” early 1960s.The exhibition marks the centenary of the photographer’s birth.
The name of the project refers to John F. Kennedy’s phrase said after the meeting with the Soviet Premiere Nikita Khrushchev at the crucial Vienna summit held in June 1961. The two leaders failed to negotiate topical issues relating to the Berlin question and disarmament. Kennedy’s words “It will be a cold winter” were to come true just in two months: August 1961 would see the construction of the Berlin wall, symbol of the Cold War confrontation between the two superpowers. A non-party photographer of Ogonyok magazine Mikhail Savi...
What is PROzavod? It stands for a major exhibition of The Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography that came out of the idea to show the best soviet industrial photography and has turned into a genuine research on the evolution of the image of factory and worker in Russia between avant-garde 1920s and present day.
© F.Grinberg - Atommash, 1974
PROzavod is an industrial story told by the medium of photography, collage and cinema. It is a kind of media archeology in the visual field. There is an avid interest toward industrial aesthetics all over the world which appears in various disciplinary researches (sociology, design, urban studies) and in art practices at the exhibition halls. Bernd and Hilla Becher’s photographs of the industrial architecture in Europe have long become classical; David Lynch&rsq...